A handful of thoughts

I like the mountains. I like photography. I like pun. I like sense of humor. I like short crisp status messages. I like to be left alone. I like being liked. I like to talk less at times. I like Facebook games. I like craziness. I like to be spellbound at intelligence and dumbness…..I like the like button on facebook.

I am one of those social networking freaks who have shifted heart hearth et al to Facebook. Once upon a time there was a social networking site called Orkut which i LIKED, which we LIKED; but that is a thing of the past. The past was about Orkut, the present is about Facebook. There are plenty of things i Like about Facebook, but most of all, I like the LIKE button on Facebook. But there is no feature no button to help me express my liking for the LIKE button and therefore this article.

The LIKE button is also, the short and sweet way to maintain relationships and to quieten friends anxious to display something.

“Hey, I have uploaded a new pic, check my wall”.

“Hey, Pls check my status msg.”

“Have you seen my new profile pic?”

Facebookers are always flooded with such requests, commands, etc. by friends and fellow facebookers. And at times, such requests come when you are neck deep into some shitty work or are simply not feeling like it and yet, you cannot afford to offend this someone. What do you do? You go to his/her wall, find out that post and simply click on the LIKE button below it. Thus, your friend knows you LIKED that particular post but you didn’t have to spare more than a few seconds on it. Thus you save your face, your time and your relationship(s). We human beings cannot express ourselves like we want to always. If you are say, expecting to be invited by a certain friend to his birthday bash, you cannot for sure risk the free booze by not viewing his new photo. Or, if you are cultivating a certain PYT for the next Saturday date, you have to surely compliment her dumb status msg. Facebook for once have understood all our woes and have come up with this marvelous application - the LIKE button.

For the likes of certain bitches, the LIKE button serves many more purposes as well. For instance, you are dumbfounded by someone’s dumbness and want him/her to continue with it infinitely. You have the LIKE button at your disposal dearie :-P. Just visit your friend’s wall and LIKE all those dumb comments; and the charade will go on.

The LIKE button has made life so much simpler and merrier and smarter. I LIKE the LIKE button; no, I LOVE THE LIKE BUTTON on FACEBOOK. Long live Facebook and long live the LIKE button on Facebook.